Some binary blobs in kfreebsd-7.2

[Javier Mendez Gomez]

Hi,

I noticed that in the kernel there are some binary blobs as those files:

src/sys/dev/ral/rt2661_ucode.h
src/sys/dev/usb/rt2573_ucode.h
src/sys/dev/drm/mga_ucode.h
src/sys/dev/drm/r600_microcode.h
src/sys/dev/drm/radeon_microcode.h
src/sys/dev/fatm/firmware.h
src/sys/dev/txp/3c990img.h
src/sys/dev/advansys/adwmcode.c

If the binary blobs of Linux kernel was excluded from main,
Would those blobs in FreeBSD kernel be a DFSG violation?

In this case,
Should this be reported as a bug?


Javier



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[Thorsten Glaser-3]

jamego1293@... dixit:

>If the binary blobs of Linux kernel was excluded from main,
>Would those blobs in FreeBSD kernel be a DFSG violation?

Depends if it’s a “program” (DFSG #2 – I disagree for firmware that
does *not* run on the host CPU but on, say, a NIC) and whether it
comes with a licence permitting redistribution.

But debian-an^H^Hlegal will have to decide, I’d say…

//mirabilos
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15:39⎜«mika:#grml» mira|AO: "mit XFree86® wär’ das nicht passiert" - muhaha
15:48⎜<thkoehler:#grml> also warum machen die xorg Jungs eigentlich alles
kaputt? :)    15:49⎜<novoid:#grml> thkoehler: weil sie als Kinder nie den
gebauten Turm selber umschmeissen durften? -- ~/.Xmodmap wonders…


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[Cyril Brulebois-4]

Thorsten Glaser <tg@...> (27/10/2009):
> But debian-an^H^Hlegal will have to decide, I’d say…

No, advise. Ftpmasters decide.

Mraw,
KiBi.